Flowering Fridays: Noticing the Details

Another beauty blooming in my front bed this week

The details make life holy.

If you want a little happiness in life don’t forget to look at the little things.

It is a poet’s work to see the incidental, pluck it, place an appropriate silence around both sides and see the profound in what passes for a passing moment.

It is an artist’s job to as much discover art as create it.

Prayer is a way of making the common profound by pausing, tying knots around a moment, turning our life into a string of pearls.

~ Noah Ben Shea

In case you hadn't noticed: I love flower close-ups.

(yeah, I know, major news flash, right?)

But I didn't know this before I started taking flower pictures last September.

It's something that developed over time. I just started zooming as much as my little Canon Powershot would allow.

What I love about getting close is capturing the uniqueness of each flower.

Like the small yellow flower-y things at the edge of this flower's center. And how the dots in the center get smaller and smaller.

(Can you tell I'm not much on the technical side of flowers? No matter, I just love them. And that is enough.)

I just love noticing these small details which, for me, speak to the heart and soul of the flower.

Indeed, for me, the holiness of life and flowers are found in the details.

Looking for the "holy details" has brought me more joy, more connection, more wonder and more delightful surprises.

It also has allowed me to bloom a little bit bigger myself.

Because when we are in an orientation of noticing details and proclaiming them "holy," we open ourselves to growth and expansion.

I say proclaiming because you get to choose whether you seem them as holy or not.

You could look at the details and see boring, pesky or annoying.

It's like looking at a yard of dandelions and choosing to see flowers instead of weeds.

When we proclaim the details as holy, we get to experience life with a sense of aliveness, possibility and curiosity.

Because from this lens, there is always something beautiful and holy to notice in each and every moment.

Tell me, what holy details are you noticing today?

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Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.